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Welcome to El Centro

One college...three campuses

El Centro has grown from just one campus to now three campuses- El Centro Downtown
Campus, Bill J. Priest Campus and West Dallas Campus. Two additional buildings are now part of the Downtown Campus – The R building which once was home to DCCCD district offices and the Paramount building where El Centro’s Center for Allied Health and Nursing is located. The Paramount building is located in the West End. Learn more »

College Highlights

Kate Firth’s Steel Sculpture

The North Oak Cliff Artist recently completed a six month art project that now hangs on the wall of El Centro, at Main Street and Lamar. But it almost didn’t happen. She had originally submitted for a freestanding piece on Market and Main but wasn’t selected. The aesthetics committee, who liked her work, persuaded her to submit for the project on Main and Lamar, which she did and was consequently selected for.

All of Kate Firth’s previous artwork had been for gallery walls, but in 2014 she began building freestanding sculptures. It was appealing to her to try something at the other end of the spectrum from what she had been previously creating. Read More

New at our West Campus! Our new Sprint to Finish Fast Track program allows students to quickly complete their core requirements in order to prepare for 4-year college or university transfer.

The West Campus Fast-Track Program offers many benefits, including:

Take 12 credit hours in one semester while focusing only on two classes at a time.

Complete your core in 16 months (Start of Fall to the end of the next Fall is 16 months in length)

Classes are eight weeks long and are offered in a hybrid format. (half the face-to-face time of a regular class)

In The Know @ El Centro Newsletter

The In the Know @ El Centro inaugural issue newsletter provides an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students to share information and photos of the many wonderful events taking place at the college.

Every day, I am reminded that the people who work here see and treat each other as a "family." Each member of this collegiate extended family has a role to play in helping students to fulfill their dreams and aspirations through higher education.

In many cases, El Centro students are the first in their family to attend college, and so they are in a journey of creating a new chapter in their lives and that of their families. It is a story of how ECC helps change lives for the better.

El Centro selected as top military-friendly college

El Centro College has been selected as a top military-friendly college in the 2015 Military Advanced Education (MAE) Guide to Colleges & Universities. The new guide will be available in December 2014.

The Guide presents results of a questionnaire of the military-friendly policies enacted at nearly 500 institutions including private, public, for-profit, not-for-profit, four-year and two-year colleges. From community colleges to state universities, online universities and nationally known centers of higher learning.

About Military Advanced Education

Military Advanced Education serves education service officers (ESOs) and transition officers (T0s)
at every U.S. military installation, along with the servicemembers they counsel. MAE's coverage includes exclusive interviews with military executive leadership, educators, and members of Congress; best practices; career and transition spotlights, servicemember, school, and program profiles, and periodic special reports.